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Here you can see our “unique” style of salsa dance by both of us. You can hear the yells from the audience and hopefully you would also be smiling when you view our salsa video below.

The music we choose for our wedding dance was more like a samba music but we especially liked how the music matched our Ending Pose.

I wore a Beatrice Looi evening short dress with lots of lace & beads while the groom, Harrace wore black suit from Saks Fifth Avenue, USA with the white wing collar shirt. For the shoes, i wore Morgan studded satin heels while the groom was in black Bally shoes.

One little tip for the bride & groom, make sure that your dance floor is unblocked as you can see how interesting my “footsteps” became thanks to the party poppers ribbon we had all over the floor!

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Here are some of the live video recordings of the wedding guests that evening at our wedding dinner.

My childhood friend, Yeong Lilian, and her adorable daughter join in the fun wedding video here

Mr & Mrs David Lo, wishes the newly wed couple in this video message

Our MC, Chelsia Ng looks so serious in this wedding video (compared to her bubbly funny personality on TV screen)

Gavin Foo translates popular chinese wedding wishes into English & it is quite entertaining! No wonder he’s in the events & entertainment industry.

Norhuda of CakesMalaysia.com (one of our coaching participants) video is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6509521806669369080&hl=en

George of www.8OfficeFurniture.com (his wife is one of the most hardworking coaching participants) delivers a short & sweet wedding wish video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2552340106831953203&hl=en

Myriam Oliveres from France, showers us with wedding greetings at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3323730893705389521&hl=en

Suppiah, the owner of the McCurry restaurants records his wedding wishes at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-873058519329676149&hl=en

James Chong, our financial planner who’s helped us invest in unit trusts and many other financial products, shares his views on http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8652912810268348984&hl=en

Shirley Leong enjoying the event at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5585105390525270221&hl=en

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Here are some photos of the cocktail reception we hosted last Saturday.

The first thing is to have the registration table. Check out the huge crowd lining up to register their attendance

- lists were divided by Alphabetical format as well as by Tables seating

As the bride & groom, do be prepared to snap lots of photos with guests, as this will allow us to greet them personally and capture our joyous moment with them on film.

The new wedding couple & friends. Harrace, Fione and Mr & Mrs David Lo, (who turned from a prospect client to close friends of the bride).

It’s wise to group the wedding guests by the different industries or network. For instance, reserve tables for friends of the mother of the bride or business partners.

My mom’s friends & my aunt (4th lady from the left). Some of them, were aunties & uncles i’ve seen since i was 5 years old, so i guess they were surprised to see how much i’ve really grown.

My father (3rd from the left) & his wide range of multi-racial friends. This is probably one of the few times you’ll ever catch my dad wearing a suit.

Mr & Mrs Teng, who has been our most supportive shareholder in eOneNet.com business since 2000. They came all the way from Singapore just to attend our wedding!

Some of our most valuable internet marketing coaching participants, Norhuda & daughter, Harrace & Myriam Oliveres from France.

And of course, our valued friends. Lilian & her husband, Eric and kids took the whole family to join our wedding. Lilian and I have been close buddies since 5 years old (we were in the same kindergarden).

Not missing out, were of course friends of my brother, Kevin. Can you guess which is my brother? He’s the cute guy, 2nd from the left.

This cocktail was from 6.28pm to 7.28pm, so that guests would have time to interact & take lots of photos. What did they do while waiting at the reception? Well, we actually gave them an instruction sheet, where they had to fulfill a few “tasks” at the event, after which they can be entitled to join the Grand Lucky Draw for amazing gifts, wines, and of course, CASH too!

Check out how excited these guests were to attend the wedding.

While browsing through the photos, we realised 1 item. We did not have a chance to take a family portrait! I wished i could have taken some photos with my family while i was wearing my custom made Margaret McCallum, swarovski crystal wedding gown. Did you notice that the design of the gown looked rather familiar? Yup, it’s in the logo of @ (to represent the Internet theme). Maybe i’ll have to arrange for another timing for our family photo session!

Our wedding dinner at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur with a cocktail reception at 6.28pm and i was surprised to hear that there were guests that arrived as early as 6 itself (at that point i was still doing my bridal make up & hair in the bridal suite).

Here is a photo of us with some of our guests :-

From left : Harrace’s mom (mother of the groom), Chelsia Ng (tv personality/celebrity & Miss Malaysia World), Harrace (the groom), Fione (me as the bride), and Kid Chan (who was actually a guest, but decided to bring in his camera too).

Our master of ceremony was Chelsia Ng , where eOneNet.com was managing her website, and being a personal friend, we knew how good she was as a MC.

When the time was right, guests were ushered into the ballroom and seated onto their respective tables, which were names of popular Websites, such as QQ.com (China’s most popular instant messaging system, even more popular than MSN Messenger), Amazon.com and of course our own range of sites like eOneNet.com

After the guests were seated down the lights for the ballroom lights were dimmed in preparation for the wedding march by the couple. You need to choose between total darkness or dimmed lights, so we choose the latter, as we would at least be able to see where we were going on the red carpet walkway.

Here is an animated photo of our wedding march.

On each table, flourescent light-up sticks (like neon glow lights) were placed so that guests could welcome the new couple, and party poppers were also placed. Upon reaching the stage, the huge party poppers were launched and there were lots of colours, and actions going on at the same time. Some wedding guests told me that it seemed more like a concert than a typical wedding dinner.
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They held their respective wedding on the same date - 9 June, 2007.

Congratulations to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah who tied the knot at his official residence at Seri Perdana yesterday!

I was so busy preparing for my wedding that I didn’t notice this piece of news until I spotted this on the front page of every newspaper in Malaysia, while I was having breakfast with Fione at M.O. So it was lucky we didn’t invite media to attend our wedding yesterday, otherwise we would be disappointed in not having media showed up. Originally, we planned to do so, but because we didn’t have time to plan for this, we couldn’t send out the invitations in time. Only one of the journalists from Tatler found out our wedding a few months ago and requested to attend. But a few days ago, he confirmed he couldn’t come due to some other “special event” popping up. So we now know what this “special event” was.

So in the future, whenever we celebrate the wedding anniversary, we will think of the Malaysia Prime Minister’s wedding anniversary!

Regards,
Harrace, the Happy Groom

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Wow, it’s the big day today, finally! Fione and I are now in Mandarin Oriental, KL, preparing for this special event. As usual, being “last-min dot-com”, we did most of the things last minute, due to our extremely hectic schedule. But we expect this event to turn out to be unique, fun-filled, and memorable!

I just changed to a white suit, whereas Fione is still doing her make-up, but guests are coming in already! We will post more updates when we have an opportunity. We take this opportunity to thank all our guests who kindly help to make our event exciting and memorable!

Regards,
Harrace

I realised it was not so easy to find bridal videography in Malaysia because everyone seemed to be scattered. Anyway, i’ve compiled a list of the wedding themed video production companies you can consider.

I found 1 company that was advertising in lots of the bridal magazines locally but i actually had several prior dealings with this person and he was not handing in the videos on time for our corporate events. Therefore, although he used a different company name here, i still figured it out because i remembered the address. Needless to say i didn’t list him here.

1. Kid Chan Studios / Portrait One
- they are the most well known photo studio in this region, and i was delighted to see Kid Chan personally contacting me when i left a message in their blog.
- main focus in on photography. I had my Malaysia wedding shoot done with their team 2 weeks ago at popular wedding photography spots like the KL Train Station and of course the KLCC / Twin Towers area.
- Benny was the camera man assigned to handle our outdoor shoot & he was amazing. The photos turned out awesome & more lively than those typical bridal pose & shoot photos.
- the KL pre-wedding montage will be shown in my Malaysia wedding event in a musical video format and i’ve booked the wedding photo album (20 images per album) at the additional cost of RM1,800

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A few weeks back, Malaysia’s New Straits Times featured our Hong Kong wedding news in a 3/4 page article. The article as published on 23 April 2007, entitled “With this Ring, I thee Web”, and we have placed this article copy on our press room section at http://eonenet.com/press/2007nst_wedding.htm

The wedding news coverage started with this paragraph:-
eOneNet.com’s chief executive officer Fione Tan and company co-founder Harrace Lau not only preach information and communication technology (ICT), but also live it.

The couple, who tied the knot in Hong Kong last month, held what they claimed was the first internet themed wedding reception in Asia. And they are planning to hold a similar reception for family and friends in Kuala Lumpur in June.

Read more about the newspaper coverage online in the url above. We’re looking forward to more media coverage on our wedding event in June, from not only newspaper, but bridal magazines and other media too.

I’ve just collected my Malaysia Marriage Registration Certificate today from WanChai, Hong Kong. I had my wedding in Hong Kong on March 4th, 2007 and this was registered in Hong Kong, and my HK marriage certificate was all i had so far.

Malaysia marriage registration certificates comes in 2 versions, one copy for the Male (blue), and another for the Female (pink). Earlier on, my husband asked me what language was stated on the certificate and I cheerfully said English. However on second checking i realised that the items were in Malay, but the details of my Hong Kong address at The Arch was in English (so Harrace was holding on to the certificates and didn’t understand anything beyond our names, and address).

Since i was Malaysian, i also needed to register my overseas marriage with the Malaysian government as well. Normally, when a couple gets married in Malaysia, they will visit the “Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara” / National Registration Department of Malaysia to register their marriage.
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Have you choosen your wedding gown? In total, i bought 3 wedding gowns, yes, “crazy” at times. My first wedding dress was a deep v plunging neckline wedding gown from Malaysia’s Eric Choong. I wore this for my Hong Kong wedding reception in Hong Kong. For my Malaysia wedding in Mandarin Oriental in June, we decided to get another custom made wedding gown from Margaret McCallum in KL Plaza.

I have been researching for different designers in KL a few months ago and managed to check out some of them. I’ve compiled a summary of the information i found, so that new brides deciding to custom make their own gown would be able to get some ideas on how to decide.

Here are some tips on how to choose your wedding dress designer:-
1. Browse magazines, and show the designer what you would like to wear

2. Consider your budget for this custom wedding gown
Here is a price list of some famous wedding gown designers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in alphabetical listing.

a) Beatrice Looi - showroom in StarHill Gallery & Bangsar Shopping Village (new wing)
- have various packages from RM5,000 onwards to up to RM20,000
- wedding packages will include shoes, wedding gown, an evening dress plus even the men’s suit so your Groom would also get a designer suit)
- my last purchase from Beatrice was 9 dresses so i decided that i probably should try something else for my KL wedding
- i wore a gold halter neck gown for my Hong Kong wedding as the evening dress. I’ll be wearing another lacy Beatrice Looi gown for my Malaysia wedding as my “salsa” dancing dress.
- evening gowns prices are quite affordable, with basic ones starting about RM300, and couture gowns about RM5,000
- you can get ready designed gowns at about RM2,500
- i only met her once when i was browsing the Bangsar outlet (not during my shopping spree earlier)

b) Carven Ong - showroom in Lot 10 (top floor)
- price ranges from RM3,500 onwards for custom made gown
- ready made gowns are about RM2,500
- i met him once when i was trying on a wedding gown that was on SALE but it looked nicer on the rack

c) Eric Choong - showroom in Bangsar (just above Madam Kwan restaurant)
- price ranges from RM4,000 onwards for custom made wedding gowns
- ready made gowns are about RM3,000 onwards
- with over 16 years of experience in wedding gown designing, he’s one of the top designers in Malaysia.
- my first wedding gown was purchased off the rack from Eric Choong so i wanted something different for my other wedding dress. The selling price for that first gown was RM6,600 but i got a special price for that (the gown just seemed to fit me so well so i had to buy it)
- the team here is very friendly & it’s a cosy environment so you’ll be amazed how fast time passes by.

d) Margaret McCallum - showroom at KL Plaza ground floor
- designer’s name is Shamsu Yusoff, and he’s a funny man plus extremely friendly
- price ranges from RM3,500 for custom made wedding dresses
- ready made gowns are about RM2,500 onwards
- you’ll get to see sketches of previous gowns designed and price on the sketches
- the first time i visited this boutique, we spent over 2 hours chatting so finally i decided that he would be the one designing my wedding gown
- p/s: He’ll not ask brides to starve till you turn into sticks, and he’s the type that will try to bring out the good features of your body shape!

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